ipfw breakage in 5.2

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Sat Dec 6 05:47:23 PST 2003


Ok, nevermind, I don't see how 'lo' got used instead of 'lo0'
but that's what appears to have caused it.

* Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> [031206 05:43] wrote:
> Sorry if this is a false alarm, but with the "open" firewall
> ruleset in effect:
> 
> # ipfw l
> 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo
> 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8
> 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
> 65000 allow ip from any to any
> 65535 allow ip from any to any
> 
> I can't ping my loopback:
> 
> # ping localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Permission denied
> 
> is this known/expected?
> 
> 
> -- 
> - Alfred Perlstein
> - Research Engineering Development Inc.
> - email: bright at mu.org cell: 408-480-4684

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
- email: bright at mu.org cell: 408-480-4684


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